Rabbi Leonard Rosenthal

Rabbi Leonard Rosenthal is a native Californian and grew up in the San Fernando Valley in Los Angeles.

While attending High School he also attended the Los Angeles Hebrew High, and was involved with numerous synagogue and youth activities. Rabbi Rosenthal received his B.A. from the University of California in San Diego and attended the Hebrew University in Jerusalem during his Junior year.

After graduating college he entered rabbinical school at the University of Judaism in Los Angeles, where he received a B.L. degree. He continued his studies at the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York where he received his M.A. and rabbinic ordination. Rabbi Rosenthal served congregations in New Jersey, Florida and Orange County, California before becoming Rabbi of Tifereth Israel Synagogue in San Diego, California, where he has served for twenty years.

He is an Executive Board member of the Pacific Southwest Region of the Rabbinical Assembly and a Past President of the San Diego Rabbinical Association.

He and his wife, Judy, have three children: Adina; Adam, married to Sarah; and Margalit; and one grandson, Neriya Yitzchak.

You can send email to the rabbi at rabbi@tiferethisrael.com.

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Click here to see photos of the Rabbi's Simchat Shabbat, February 1st, and an Evening of Praise, Laughter and Song, a tribute to Rabbi Rosenthal for twenty years' serivce to Tifereth Israel Synagogue and the Jewish community in San Diego that was held on February 2nd, 2008.